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Film: Daniel Craig and the late Ken Russell Francine Stock talks to Daniel Craig about The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, looks ahead to next year's likely hits and pays tribute to the genius of Ken RussellListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Film: 151211: Eddie Marsen & Carol MorleyCarol Morley talks to Francine Stock about her disturbing documentary, Dreams of a Life and one of the undisputed stars of British cinema, Eddie Marsan, shares a few acting tips.
Andrew Collins gives his verdict on the nominations for this year's Golden Globes and Jonathan Romney and Hannah McGill pick the year's best foreign language films and look forward to 2012Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Film: 081112: Nick Broomfield talks about his new filmDirectors abound this week. Nick Broomfield discusses his documentary on Sarah Palin, Ben Wheatley sketches the motives behind Kill List and Mike Cahill explains Another Earth.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Film: Martin Scorsese on Hugo and the future of cinema.Martin Scorsese talks to Francine Stock about cinema's future, his passion for its history and the way he's used 3D to conjure them both to dazzling life in his new film, Hugo.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Film: Kenneth Branagh, Nanni Moretti & Michael ShannonConflict is this week's theme. It begins with the clash between Marilyn Monroe and Sir Laurence Olivier during the filming of The Prince and The Showgirl - a story which lies at the heart of Simon Curtis' My Week with Marilyn starring Kenneth Branagh and Michelle Williams; it continues with the friction caused when belief bumps into psychoanalytic dogma in Nanni Moretti's We Have a Pope; it encompasses the struggle between invading Nazis and Welsh farmers in Resistance - a counterfactual fi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Film:17 Nov 11: Terence Davies on The Deep Blue SeaTerence Davies plunges into The Deep Blue Sea and Daniel Henshall explains why he seized the chance to play Australia's most notorious serial killer in SnowtownListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Film: Bruce Robinson, Errol Morris and Andrea ArnoldThe Film Programme this week features ill -fated romance, outer space and excessive drinking. So something for everyone! Francine Stock talks to Withnail's creator, Bruce Robinson about his return to directing with The Rum Diary starring Johnny Depp; Errol Morris will be discussing his new documentary --Tabloid -- about Joyce McKinney the former beauty queen known to some readers and newspaper editors in the Seventies as the woman at the centre of the sex in chains scandal;and Fish Tank's d ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Film: John Landis and Philip Seymour HoffmanFrancine Stock meets three of the biggest stars in American cinema - Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Landis and Miranda July. Philip Seymour Hoffman will be discussing his debut as a director, Jack Goes Boating and the challenge of playing a man whose integrity is matched by his diffidence. Miranda July offers a few tips on how to navigate the charming but quirky world of The Future where cats speak and time stands still; and John Landis - the director of An American Werewolf in London and Mic ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Film: Roland Emmerich and Beau WillimonFrancine Stock meets with director Roland Emmerich whose new film Anonymous claims William Shakespeare is not the man behind the plays.
Is George Clooney a future President of the United States of America? His character in the Ides of March is hoping to go all the way to the White House - at any cost. The man behind the film Beau Willimon discusses the grubby game of getting elected.
Mexican filmmaker Gerardo Naranjo explains why his film Miss Bala is a desperate plea to the Mexican a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Film: A celebration of 1970's American CinemaIn a special edition of the Film Programme Francine Stock and guests travel back four decades to what might be the most extraordinary year in American cinema - 1971. The year that saw the release of such films as Klute, The Last Picture Show, The French Connection and Carnal KnowledgeListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Film: Tilda Swinton, Julia Leigh & British FilmTilda Swinton discusses her role in We Need to Talk About Kevin, Julia Leigh talks about her erotically charged debut Sleeping Beauty. Director Goran Olsson discusses his documentary Black Power Mix Tape and Francine and guests debate the current healthy state of British cinema.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Film: Woody AllenFrancine Stock travels to Manhattan for an extended interview with the supreme exponent of screen neurosis in the 1970s and beyond, Woody Allen, currently enjoying his biggest box office success in years with Midnight in Paris.
Producer: Craig SmithListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Film: Lars Von Trier on new film MelancholiaFrancine Stock talks to Lars von Trier about his new film Melancholia; John Madden reveals the details of his new spy thriller The Debt; Ali Samadi Ahadi discusses his film documenting the protests in Iran in 2009, The Green Wave. And Francine also looks at digital projection and why it's leaving some cinema goers in the dark.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Film: Nicholas Winding RefnFrancine Stock talks to Nicholas Winding Refn about his new film, Drive, starring Ryan Gosling as a stuntman who drives getaway cars in his spare time.
A collection of early Humphrey Jennings films are reviewed by the British filmmaker’s biographer Kevin Jackson.
There's also an interview with Andrew Rossi who went undercover to produce Page One, a documentary about the New York Times and Neil Brand is on hand to discuss some of your least favourite film scores.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
FilmProgramme: Mike FiggisMike Figgis on Nicholas Ray's last film and Frank Cottrell Boyce on screenwriting.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Film: Gary Oldman and Marni NixonGary Oldman talks to Francine Stock about playing George Smiley in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy and Marni Nixon recalls her part in one of the great musicals- West Side StoryListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Film: Jane Eyre and Self MadeMoira Buffini on screenwriting Jane Eyre; Martin Scorsese on Italian cinema; Athina Rachel Tsangari's Greek film Attenberg inspired by the wild life documentaries of Sir David Attenborough and artist Gillian Wearing's film, Self Made.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Film: One Day and The Skin I Live InMatthew Sweet talks to Anne Hathaway about mastering a Yorkshire accent for One Day; Elena Anaya on acting for Pedro Almodovar in The Skin I Live In; and Jonathan Balcon on the re-release of Ealing comedies Kind Hearts and Coronets and The Lavender Hill Mob.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Film: Cowboys & Aliens and Vera DayMatthew Sweet talks to Harrison Ford about Cowboys & Aliens, discusses a Brazilian horror classic with Mark Gatiss and hears how Vera Day put Marilyn Monroe's nose out of jointListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Film: Project Nim, Roman Gavras & Mark GatissJames Marsh, winner of an Oscar for Man on Wire, talks about his new film, Project Nim. The debut film from Roman Gavras - Our Day Will Come and more from Mark Gatiss on horror moviesListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Film: Dominic Cooper & The Light of AsiaDominic Cooper talks to Matthew Sweet about playing Saddam Hussein's psychopathic son, Uday as well as his double and Mark Gatiss revels in Franju's horror classic, Nuits RougesListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Film: Anjelica Huston; Mark Gatiss on HorrorIn this week's Film Programme Matthew Sweet talks to Hollywood royalty, Anjelica Huston. Their extended conversation embraces her latest excursion into kids films, Horrid Henry but also her reflections on Montgomery Clift, Jean Paul Sartre, Dick and Dom, her father and childhood in Ireland. She's joined by the designer, Wayne Hemingway, who shares his enthusiasm for the vintage film, Jazz on a Summer's Day and by Mark Gatiss who reveals the extraordinary story of the Spanish Dracula in the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Film: Jennifer Aniston; Mike Mills; Mark GatissModern love is the focus in this week's film programme presented by Matthew Sweet. A septuagenarian Christopher Plummer comes out after forty years of marriage when his wife dies in Mike Mills' Beginners; Jennifer Aniston plays a randy dentist in Seth Gordon's new film, Horrible Bosses; and Rita Hayworth torments herself and Glenn Ford in the luminescent, Gilda. There's also the first of six trips into the weird and wonderful world of horror with the comedian and actor, Mark Gatiss.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The legacy of Harry Potter; Aidan Gillen; Jane AsherAs the Hogwarts Express prepares to chug off into the sunset Francine Stock reflects on the legacy of Harry Potter. We’ll also be talking to Aidan Gillen about his role in Treacle Jnr - the new film by the much lauded independent director, Jamie Thraves who remortgaged his home to fund the feature. Jane Asher shares her thoughts about starring in Skolimowski's cult classic, Deep End. And we'll also be hearing about Martin Scorsese's programme of films for the Port Eliot Festival in Cornwa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Film Programme: The Tree of Life and David SchwimmerFilm director Terence Malick on The Tree of Life and two cautionary tales: David Schwimmer's new film Trust and Bertrand Tavernier's The Princess of Montpensier. And pianist Neil Brand on supernatural film scores...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Film: Tom Hanks on Larry CrowneFrancine Stock meets with Tom Hanks to discuss his new comedy Larry Crowne.
Critic Karen Zarindast discusses Asghar Farhadi's A Separation, a tale of a troubled marriage.
Director Bob Rafelson looks back at his celebrated feature from 1970, Five Easy Pieces, starring Jack Nicholson.
Film historian Ian Christie discusses a glut of Russian-made films inspired by the cosmos.
Producer: Craig Smith.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Film: Kristen WiigComedian Kristen Wiig on Bridesmaids, her rom-com from the female point of view.
Director Denis Villeneuve discusses his Oscar-nominated film Incendies.
Viva Riva director Djo Munga reveals his struggle to make the Congo's first gangster film.
This month marks the centenary of Bernard Herrmann's birth. Friend and fellow composer Laurie Johnson remembers.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Film:Kevin Macdonald, Brendan Gleeson & Paolo SorrentinoKevin Macdonald and Brendan Gleeson share top billing in this week's Film Programme which also features a report on Edinburgh's International Film Festival which opened this week.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
FilmProgramme: Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu in PoticheCatherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu in Potiche; Ivan Passer's lost gem from the '80's Cutters Way; cameraman, Seamus McGarvey and the BFI's Bryony Dixon to consider how doubling the frame rate at which films are shot might affect the clarity of the images and director Steve James on his new film The Interrupters.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Film: Ayrton Senna and American aristocratsIn this week's edition of The Film Programme Francine Stock examines the very latest and very best current documentary releases, such as Asif Kapadia's much lauded Senna and Jerry Rothwell's subtle account of the family in the age of the sperm bank, Donor Unknown. The BBC's Storyville's editor, Nick Fraser, will be paying tribute to two acknowledged masters, the Maysles Brothers. And to round things off Charlie Phillips, one of the organisers of the Sheffield Documentary Festival, and the d ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Film: From X-Men to Pythagoras and Jane Russell.In the Film Programme this week Francine Stock talks to the screenwriter Jane Goldman about the latest X-Men feature; discusses metaphysics and the intractability of goats with Michelangelo Frammartino, the director of the brilliant and mysterious Le Quattro Volte; and shares in the author and critic Kim Newman's enthusiasm for a comedy thriller featuring Jane Russell, Robert Mitchum and Vincent Price. There's also a master class in the kind of music that makes an action sequence really fiz ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Film: Cannes; Isadora; A restored Twenties classicA view from Cannes, Karel Reisz' Isadora, a restored classic of silent cinema and this week's cinema with Francine Stock.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Film Programme: Francine Stock talks to Emilio Estevez, Joe Cornish and top producer Jerry Bruckheimer. .From multiplex to art house -- Francine Stock talks to Emilio Estevez, Joe Cornish and Mahamat-Saleh Haroun and meets the man behind Pirates of the Caribbean, Jerry Bruckheimer.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Film: Film Programme - Joe Wright on his new film HannaIn the Film Programme this week Francine Stock talks to the director of Atonement, Joe Wright about his new film, Hanna; the charismatic Christoph Waltz, who stars in Water for Elephants, discusses the craft of screen acting; and the film historian Neil Brand reflects on cinema's ironic use of music. There's also a look back to two cult films released in 1968 - Bob Rafelson's Head and the even rarer Joanna, directed by Mike Sarne, which has just been released on DVD.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Film Programme: Ray Winstone on new film TrackerRay Winstone on his new film Tracker and Christian Carion on spy movie Farewell.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Film: Little White Lies and The Man Who Fell to EarthFrancine Stock talks to the director, Guillaume Canet, about his latest film, Little White Lies, which has sold five million tickets in France alone and is opening in cinemas here now. She's also joined by the writer, Paul Mayersberg and the historian, Pasquale Iannone. Paul will be discussing the genesis of Nicholas Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth while, on the eve of a big Bertolucci season on London's Southbank, Pasquale considers the importance of his second feature, Before the Revolut ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Film: Werner HerzogFrancine Stock discusses cave art with the veteran German director Werner Herzog and quizzes Kevin MacDonald about The Eagle, a version of Rosemary Sutcliff's classic book. There's also an interview with Brian Cox about two of his favourite films and the sound designer, Matt Wand, offers us a glimpse into the world of the Foley artist - the people who not only make Marilyn's heels go clickety clack and Clint's horses go cloppity clop but invite us to dream.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Film: Richard AyoadeRichard Ayoade and Joe Dunthorne discuss Submarine.
Neil Brand is behind the piano to deconstruct the recurring hook in film scores from Taxi Driver to True Grit.
Filmmaker Richard Jobson assesses The Singer Not the Song, starring Dirk Bogarde.
Ken Loach talks about his latest - Route Irish.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Film: Fair game, Norwegian Wood, Benda Bilili.Francine Stock meets with Jez and John-Henry Butterworth, the writers behind Fair Game, a political thriller starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts.
Star Wars super-fan Jamie Benning explains why he has spent four years making three unofficial documentaries about the initial trilogy.
Lesley Manville dissects her performance in Mike Leigh's Another Year.
Director Anh Hung Tran discusses his adaptation of Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood.
Staff Benda Bilili are a collection of dis ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Film: Joanna HoggFrancine Stock talks to British director Joanna Hogg about Archipelago, a tense and awkward family drama set on the island of Tresco.
Director Andrew Ruhemann discusses his Oscar-winning animation, The Lost Thing.
Francine visits The Junior Film Club in Lewes, Sussex to report on an inventive initiative to engage children in film.
Director Marc Evans discusses his road movie Patagonia, starring the singer Duffy in her first film role.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Film: Oscar guideThe awards season reaches its grand finale this Sunday with the 83rd Annual Academy Awards and Francine Stock is here with an indispensable guide to this year's crop of films hoping for Oscar glory. With contributions from, amongst others, Darren Aronofsky, Jesse Eisenberg, Amy Adams, Helena Bonham Carter and Mike Leigh.
Film critic Adam Smith will explain why he won't be glued to the television late in to Sunday night.
Australian director David Michod discusses his accomplished first ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Film: Simon Pegg and Nick FrostFrancine Stock meets with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost to discuss Paul.
Neil brand is here to give a musical guide through the world of dreams in film.
Iranian director Rafi Pitts discusses The Hunter, a metaphorical meditation on the current political situation in his home country.
Liverpudlian Geoff Woodbridge is a big fan of horror films. He's just watch one a day for the last year. He explains why and picks out a couple of favourites.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Film: Hailee Steinfeld and Keira KnightleyFrancine Stock talks to Hailee Steinfeld the young actress who stars with Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon in The Coen Brothers' remake of True Grit. Sir Christopher Frayling is also on hand to give an assessment of the modern Western.
Keira Knightely discusses her role in the adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go.
Author Jonathan Coe asseses the career of Japanese filmmaker Kenji Mizoguchi, seen as one of the first 'feminist' directors.
Director David O. Russell talk ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Film: Helen Mirren on Brighton RockFrancine Stock meets with Dame Helen Mirren star of a new version of Brighton Rock.
Stephen Frears discusses his love of Howard Hawks and focuses on Only Angels Have Wings from 1939, starring Cary Grant and Rita Hayworth.
Critic Nigel Floyd considers two films from the 1960s - Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment and A Blonde in Love.
John Cameron Mitchell talks about his latest, Rabbit Hole, starring Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Film: Paul Giamatti & Donald SutherlandFrancine Stock talks to Paul Giamatti, the star of Sideways, about his new comedy drama Barney's Version.
Donald Sutherland, the star of Don't Look Now and MASH, considers the difference between Hollywood in the 1970s and today.
From Andrei Tarkovksy to Sylvester Stallone: Andrei Konchalovsky discusses state censorship, Stalin and Hollywood blockbusters.
Lord David Puttnam, Asif Kapadia and Antonia Quirke reveal their final film diaries.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Film: Ken Loach and the pop-up cinemaInspired by stories of listeners staging their own site-specific screenings, Francine Stock tries to set up her own pop-up cinema. Along the way, Francine asks the help of various experts and societies about what you really need to organise a cinematic happening. But of course, what she needs most is a director who's willing to show their film and take part in the event. Will Ken Loach, the new patron of the British Federation Of Film Societies, be her knight in shining armour ?Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Film: Black Swan & Blue Valentine 14 Jan 11Francine Stock looks ahead to Radio 4's Film Season, asking for listeners' diaries of their movie watching habits over January. The result will be a snapshot of the nation's viewing preferences - where we watch films (on television, computer or in the cinema) and on what format - DVD or download. Francine will try to find out if the digital revolution has finally arrived or is it just a media myth, and to discern what we are watching, whether its new releases or old favourites. Plus, Franci ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Film: Helena Bonham Carter 7th Jan 11Francine Stock talks to Helena Bonham Carter about playing the Queen Mother in The King's Speech and why she was like "marshmallow, but made with a welding machine".
In anticipation of Radio 4's film season, the Film Programme is asking its listeners to keep a diary of their film-viewing during the month of January to get a snap-shot of how we watch movies in the 21st century
Actor Diego Luna discusses his directorial debut Abel, which broke box-office records in his native Mexico
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Film: Simon Beaufoy 31 Dec 10The Full Monty and Slumdog Millionaire scribe Simon Beaufoy on 127 Hours. The pick of world cinema in 2010 and 2011.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | |